• September 7, 2026
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Salesforce Forecasts Record $334 Billion in Global Cyber Week Sales, Driven by Agentic AI

Salesforce Forecasts Record $334 Billion in Global Cyber Week Sales, Driven by Agentic AI 

Salesforce projects that Cyber Week 2025 will generate $334 billion in global online sales, with $73 billion directly influenced by AI and agents, up 22 percent from last year. The company said retailers deploying agentic …

Why AI Projects Fail and How Orchestration Can Supercharge Agentic Automation

Why AI Projects Fail and How Orchestration Can Supercharge Agentic Automation

Despite enormous hype around the productivity gains businesses will realize from agentic AI automation, organizations are expressing increasing doubt about their ability to scale the technology past the pilot stage or …

Benioff: AI Agents Have Replaced 4k Support Employees at Salesforce, Boosted Sales Callbacks

Benioff: AI Agents Have Replaced 4k Support Employees at Salesforce, Boosted Sales Callbacks

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who has been among the most vocal evangelists for agentic AI, told Logan Bartlett on his most recent podcast that AI agents have replaced 4,000 human employees …

Forrester Names Appian, IBM, Pegasystems, Salesforce and ServiceNow as ‘DPA’ Leaders

Forrester Names Appian, IBM, Pegasystems, Salesforce and ServiceNow as ‘DPA’ Leaders

Cambridge, Mass.-based consultancy Forrester has released its most recent Wave report ($) identifying and evaluating what it has identified as the top 15 providers of Digital Process Automation (DPA) technology. For Q3 2025, Forrester named Appian, …

From Bots to Brains: Orchestrating the Next Wave of Automation

From Bots to Brains: Orchestrating the Next Wave of Automation

Mark Geene understands there’s a big difference between an agent that books your personal travel and one that processes a million claims a month for a health insurer. The distinction matters …

Gartner Tabs Familiar Names as RPA ‘Leaders’

Gartner Tabs Familiar Names as RPA ‘Leaders’

Platforms that automate business processes have undergone significant change since Automation Today began covering the space in the late 2010s. But, as they have evolved to include technologies from natural language …

Salesforce Acquires Informatica to Supercharge Agentic AI

Salesforce Acquires Informatica to Supercharge Agentic AI

Salesforce, the San Francisco-based CRM giant, recently announced it has agreed to acquire AI and data management platform provider Informatica for $8 billion. According to a joint statement, Informatica’s data catalog …

HR Pros Predict 327% Increase in Agentic AI Implementation by 2027, Says Report

HR Pros Predict 327% Increase in Agentic AI Implementation by 2027, Says Report

A survey of 200 global human resource executives indicates AI agent adoption will increase 327 percent in the next two years, from which their organizations will become 30 percent more productive. …

Everest Group Names its Top Players in IDP

Everest Group Names its Top Players in IDP

The Everest Group, a global technology consultant based in Dallas, has released its annual evaluation of intelligent document processing (IDP) technology providersfor 2025. The company, which produces a “PEAK Matrix” report for …

Nearly 90% of Americans Support AI Agents That Make Gov’t Interactions More Efficient, Says Report

Nearly 90% of Americans Support AI Agents That Make Gov’t Interactions More Efficient, Says Report

Current attempts to downsize the federal government notwithstanding, most people who have had to interact with the U.S., state or local governments find the process onerous, time consuming and inefficient. According …